House GOP considers threatening default over Obamacare

House Speaker John Boehner, center, walks through the Capitol in September. House Republicans are considering a fight over the debt ceiling to thwart Obamacare. (Andrew Harrer/Bloomberg via Getty Images)

House GOP considers threatening default over Obamacare

With federal agencies set to close their doors in five days, House Republicans began exploring a potential detour on the path to a shutdown: shifting the fight over President Barack Obama's health-care law onto a separate bill that would raise the nation's debt limit.If it works, the strategy could clear the way for the House to approve a simple measure to keep the government open into the new fiscal year, which will begin Tuesday, without hotly contested provisions to defund …